The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-08


held at Bangor last week is reported TO have
been the most successful and interesting
meeting of the kind ever held in the district.
Il. II. Chapman-that's Bob-formerly the
liliputian typo of the NoRTHERNER, was in
town last Saturday and Sunday. He has a
+" sit" on the Dowagiac Times, the paper that
is 80 noted for drawing the long bow.
Children's Day exercises at the Nj. L.
church next Sabbath will be very interesting.
1t will require both the morning and even
ing hours of worship TO complete the pro-
gramme. Bring the flowers and birds Satur-
day, June 11th.
Every mother who has q son or daughter
in the Paw Paw public school is earnestly
invited to be present at a mothers meeting
to be held in Maynards hall on Friday after
noon, June 10th, at 2:30, to listen to an ad-
dress from Prof. Russell
The Peninsular House at Lake Cora is
now open for the reception of guests. All
who may patronize that beautiful resort will
be sure TO be served in a manner that will
prove highly satisfactory to them. No
pleasanter place can be found in south
western Michigan.
Our friend, A. Il. Foote, left at our Office
last Monday box of the finest strawberries
we have yet seen. They were of the Sharp
less variety and were as large as fair sized
peaches. Their quality was fully in keeping
with their size. Mr.. Foote has marketed as
fine berries this season as can be found
anywhere. He raises several different varie-
ties, all large, fine and well favored.
We were highly pleased (?) to observe in
last weeks AdUdnce an editorial article clip
ped from the Courier and credited to the
NoRTHERNER, and we were tickled almost to
death to see in the same paper NoRTHERNER
editorial clipped and credited to the Courier.
We presume the Courier man was also very
highly gratified. The Adgdnce seems to
think that even exchange is no robbery.
Prof. Dawes from Puget Sound, expects
to 60 to New York this summer TO wake up
the sporting men. He will stop in Michigan
and walk with Mary, and says he will wheel
wheelbarrow with 100 pound weight in
it and keep up with her. Mary says she is
in her 50th year and has got to be grandma,
but he will have to wheel his Irish gig faster
than she ever saw one 60 or she will keep
out of his way.
A few evenings since, while riding along
one of our country roads with his best girl,
young Paw Paw gentleman lost his hat and
did not discover his loss until he had driven
drove leisurely back and the lost was found
-jammed into the mud and in sadly de-
moralized condition. He asked US not to
give him away and we won't; but we have
been wondering what 80 occupied his atten-
ton that he could drive half mile in the
rain bare-headed, and not know it.
Henry Rowland informs us that, on Satur-
day evening last, lightning struck large
oak tree standing just across the road from
his residence cutting the top completely off,
eeyating it like balloon and letting it
fall to the ground, while the body was scat
tered promiscuously around his premises.
Pieces so large that he had to use his team
to draw them away were driven to distance
of twenty-five rods. One piece was so firmly
imbedded in straw stack some distance
away that he could not pull it out. While on
its journey to the stack, it went whizzing
through the air in close proximity to Hanks
head, fairly making his hair stand on end.
There was very little rain or wind at the time.
Mrs Geo. Prater, a mile away, was stricken
to the earth by the shock.
The second annual banquet of the Einzig
Club was held with Misses May and Elsie
Tuttle, at their home three miles south of
this village, ON Saturday afternoon and even
ing last. About thirty members were pres
ent, and they enjoyed themselves in various
ways until six O'clock when an elegant sup
per was served. Before beginning the repast,
Mrs. A. @. Martin, president of the society,
was presented with beautiful card-receiver,
for which she returned thanks in a very neat
little address. A prophecy was then read by
Mr.. Harry Myers, in which all the members
had their futures brilliantly portrayed. Then
all fell to with a will, and supper was speed
lily dispatched. The evening was passed
with music, ETC., until about ten o'clock,
when the company broke up, all voting the
banquet brilliant success.
We never pretended to be much of horse
man. Indeed, about all the difference we
ever could tell between horses was in size
and color. AS to age, We can tell sucking
colt from its dam by the relative positions
they occupy as well as by the difference in
size. s. A. Smith was in town the other day
and asked US to tell which horse of his team
was the Oldest. We looked them over with
the air of an expert and, noticing that one
showed few gray hairs while the other was
almost a jet black, we designated the one
that was turning gray; but we were off by a
triie of thirty years. The one we selected
! as being the most advanced in years was
three year old colt while the black was a
veteran of thirty.three years. We have
learned that gray hairs on horse are not a
sure indication of declining years.
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